{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-special-protection-for-irish-hares-order-northern-ireland-2006/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-special-protection-for-irish-hares-order-northern-ireland-2006/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/114",
  "legislation_title": "Game Preservation (Special Protection for Irish Hares) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-special-protection-for-irish-hares-order-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GAME\nMade 9th March 2006\nComing into operation 17th April 2006\nThe Department of the Environmentmakes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7C(1) and 7F(1) of the Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928;\nIn accordance with section 7C(1) of that Act, that Department is satisfied that it is necessary to provide special protection for Irish Hares;\nIn accordance with section 7F(5) of that Act, that Department has caused a notice of the proposal to make an order to be published and taken into consideration the objections duly lodged in accordance with that notice;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No 252; S.R. &O (N.I.) 1973 No 504 Art. 7; S.I. 1976/424 (N.I.6) Art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1928 c. 25 (N.I.) as amended by s.3 of the 1951 c. 4 (N.I.) and s.3 of the 2002 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/114/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:47:44.706916+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}